1o  CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
Description, The gréat wild burnet hath winged leaves rifing from the roots 
like the garden burner, but not fo many, yet each of thefe leaves are at leaft twice 
as large as the other, and nicked in the fame manner about the edges, of a greyith 
‘colour on the under fide ; the ftalks are larger and rife higher, with many fuch like’ 
leaves fet thereon, and greater head at the tops, of a brownifh green colour, and out 
of them come fmall, dark, purple flowers, like the former but greater : the root is 
black and Jong like the other, but alfo greater; it hath almoft neither {cent nor 
tafte therein like the garden kind. 
Piace. The firft grows frequently in gardens ; the wild kind groweth in divers 
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counties of this Kingdom, efpecially in Huntington and Northamptonfhires in the — 
meadows there; as alfo near London by Pancras church, and by a caufeway fide in 
the middle of a field by Paddington. 
_Trate. They flower about the end of June and beginnning of July, and their 
feed is ripe in Augutt. a 
co a. ; ee wae 
Government anv Virtues, Tt is an herb the Sun challengeth dominion over, 
and is a moft precious herb, little inferior to betony ; the continual ufe’of it preferves 
the body in health, and the {pirits in vigour ; for if the Sun be the preferver of life. 
under God, his herbs are the belt in the world 
be both of one property, but’ the leffer is the moft effectual, becaufe quicker and. 
ys it is a fpecial help to defend the heart from noifome vapours, 
peftilence; the juice thereof being taken in fome drink, and 
They have alfoa drying and an aftringent qua- 
are available in all manner Of fluxes of blood or humours, to 
er of the diftilled herb, 
3 lafks, fcourings, the bloody flux, women’s 00 
aS al no lefs fectual both to ftop fluxes and dry up 
oe = Posaet inwa dly in wine or fteeled water, that > 
‘Rave been quenched, Or the powder of the feed mixed 
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